Perfect Pitch

Posted by Conor MacCarthy
(157.190.2.254) on March 19, 2002 at 08:51:07:

Just been wondering about perfect pitch(i know its not exactly a double bass-related question, but what the heck). Does anyone know for sure - or is that possable - if perfect pich is to do woth aural memory or if it is in fact the ability to recognise the pitches. I was thinking that it has to simply be memory because musical pitch has become gradually sharper of the last few hundred years. A 430 has becomce A 442 or A 444 in some orchestras(!). Any thoughts?